More Music to Read Duels By · 11:54pm Apr 21st, 2017
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Rarity drew her arm back. On her other arm the Field Spell slot on her duel disk snapped open.
A vortex of dark light began to swirl around Rarity’s feet. Twilight gasped sharply as she felt a pulse in the air. What’s happening?
“I activate the Field Spell ‘Advanced Dark’!”
Rarity brought her arm down and slid the card into her duel disk. The card lit up in the tray and a shimmer of red light washed over the length of the device. At Rarity’s feet the dark vortex flared up and began to grow, snapping and crackling. In its wake a deep purple mist covered the ground, expanding with the circle. The barrier passed Twilight and she cried out as it knocked her to the ground.
“Twilight!” Spike howled as the barrier reached him, flinging him back. The circle now large enough to fully encompass the duel, it flashed and stopped its expansion.
Twilight rolled onto her stomach and looked out. A dark haze obscured her vision but she could see Spike being picked up by Fluttershy. Twilight saw the barrier’s end in front of her, the edge a pulsing tide of shining darkness. This is no hologram… She reached out her hand. The barrier sparked at her touch and she sharply pulled back. Magic, at once familiar and unfamiliar, twisted and dark. She pushed herself to her feet and turned. The field was now blanketed in a cloying purple fog that rolled against the edges of the barrier. Twilight raised her eyes from the ground to her opponent.
“Rarity…”
On the other end of the field, Rarity had a manic leer on her face. An aura of shadows surrounded her body, her skin and clothing turned to a darker color. Her eyes were lit up with blue magic and her hair was a shimmering, glowing mass of dark blue and purple, light shining in the strands as they waved in air behind her. The diamonds on her outfit lit up and turned black and silver.
Rarity’s voice echoed as she spoke. “As long as my Field Spell is in play now, all Crystal Beast monsters in the graveyard and on the field are treated as Dark-attribute.” She reached to her hand and took hold of a card. “Thus I have everything in place for this.” She thrust her card into the air and an orb of dark magic appeared over it. Seven smaller orbs of light emerged from Rarity’s duel disk and swirled up to her hand. “Ruby Carbuncle, Amber Mammoth, Topaz Tiger, Emerald Tortoise, Sapphire Pegasus, Cobalt Eagle, Amethyst Cat! I banish seven Dark monsters of different names in my graveyard, to call forth my ultimate beast!”
The orb flashed and shot up into the clouds. Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed within them. Twilight took a step back as a massive shadowed form lowered out of the clouds. A long serpentine body slithered through the air leading up to an indistinct shielded form. In a flash of lightning Twilight saw they were a pair of crossed wings. Then the wings snapped out into the air and the creature’s body lit up.
The monster was a dragon, pitch black with gold linings along its wings and body. Gemstones in seven colors were embedded in its scales, set in a line leading up to its head, a large set of jaws and four red eyes glaring out from a golden helmet crested with sweptback horns. Its wings, large and covered in black feathers, flapped as the dragon lowered behind Rarity.
Twilight’s jaw hung open as Rarity laughed, her eyes blazing with light.
“I Special Summon ‘Rainbow Dark Dragon’ (4000/0)!”
I was not fully happy with the last chapter to be honest... because you fell into the trap I guessed you would have fallen into.
No no no. God's Anger should be reserved for Twilight vs Sunset.
tbh I was expecting something from blazblue
4505259 That would also be extremely fitting.
4505488 You know me so well. Honestly, I can't think of any that fits right now. Wait until the last duel.
4505153 how so?
4505510 You fell into the 'I have to extend the story somehow' trap.
4505688
Or, he's had the entire story already planned out since before beginning to type the first word?
4505688 seeing as there's three rounds in the tournament left no matter who Twilight faces or Sunset's influence over them in any way.... No. This doesn't make the fic longer at all.
4506042 Just saying I wouldn't have minded just a simple duel and maybe some nice banter between Twilight and her friend, whoever they may have been, instead of just the 'OH THEY'RE MIND CONTROLLED' trope that made the Marik Arc so unbearable for me.
4506045 yeah, because the possessed friend thing has been one of Yugioh 'DrakeyC' favorite tropes since day one. And yeah, this has been planned. It's part of the reason Rarity uses Crystal Beasts.
4506053 Okay. I never personally liked it since Yu-Gi-Oh abused it to the point half the people he fights are just his friends or they were secretly mind controlled from the start.